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Hijackers flight the pilot for control of the plane. >> i said this is all finished now. we are all dead people. let me do it my way. i dont know how they did it. >> they disengaged the autopilot. >> disengaged it? >> yeah. they did. and then i had to start flying it myself. >> in the cabin, passengers start to panic. >> when the pilot first made the announcement that the plane was out of fuel in one engine and running out in the other, the plane just broke into pandemonium, and then we heard pa...

That captain was under a different kind of stress than weve seen with the others. >> absolutely. he not only had the issues of putting the plane down in the water, he had people onboard that were trying to kill people on the airplane, including himself. >> its november 23rd, 1996. ethiopian airlines flight 961 from the ethiopian capital to africa. it turns out to be anything but a normal flight. the pilot sat with a filmmaker whose father was killed in the crash. in the cockpit of a boeing 767 s...

Captain tries as hard as he can to put the plane he nicknamed zulu down safely into the water. >> okay. you have to hold it. hold it. okay zulu, i know you will make it. >> its traveling about 200 miles per hour, far too fast to ditch safely. but there is an even more serious problem. as this incredible video shows, the wings are not level. a dangerous angle for ditching. watch as the left wing drags along the water with disastrous results. >> they catch the left wing first. you will see it come...

Go out. i said, guys, hold on, whats going on? shut up. the flight is hijacked. >> okay. >> claiming to have a bomb, the hijackers demand to be flown to australia. >> this flight is destined to nairobi. we dont carry enough fuel to australia. lets land in nairobi, refuel and then well go to australia. >> the hijackers refused to allow the captain to refuel at cities along his route. they want him to fly out over the water towards australia. and the pilot knows thats a losing proposition. so he h...

Our captain is joaquin sanclemente, something of a legend in these parts. and his copilot, captain constanza. >> pablo: its mystical. you know, and they -- they develop this sensibility with the plane. theres no intel inside here. theres no software. they have gps, but thats about it. its beautiful. you know, they have to sense everything. they know when the sound of the plane is not right. its just man and machine. >> anthony: the weather is the big unknown around here. its changeable enough to...

We are back now with an intriguing development of the battle against alzheimers disease. there is been a debate for years whether brain exercises can help worn off the disease. today scientists reported for the first time they they do work. morg morg morgan radford has the details. >> today for the first time scientists think they can prove it. it is one of the first interventions that we have found significantly reduced the dent of dementias across time. >> doctor edwards presented the resear...

Will be up over 100 degrees in the northern plains and dangerous types of heat. cecelia. >> it is hot out there. rob thank you. in hawaii there is a stunning story of survival. a small plane crashing into the ocean and the pilots in the water for 20 hours. before being rescued. abc on how they helped each other stay alive. reporter: tonight, two pilots recovering from their harrowing experience. lost at sea for over 20 hours. >> we have a report of two people in the water approximately three m...

Losing altitude at a rate of 56 feet a second. with all systems down, captain mackenzie switches to auxiliary power. with co-pilot keel hand flying the jet, it all comes down to stick and rudder skills. >> they go to hand-flying. that is, they actually physicalically, tactily fly the airplane. is it too slow, too fast? is it banking left or right? >> after losing radio contact for two minutes, first officer keel asks air traffic control to find an airport for emergency landing. the closest runwa...

Minutes, the hail finally relets not. flight attendant cooper opens the cockpit door. but nothing can prepare her for the look she sees in first officer keels eyes when he turns to look at her. >> i didnt know the co-pilot that well. but he seemed extremely confident and level headed. and he screamed. he was obviously terrified. i could not see through the windows when i went into the cockpit, they were so cracked. i didnt see how we werent knocked right out of the sky. i really didnt. >> had th...

>> when the pilot told us to stay seated, we were like, okay, yay. >> pilots here on the radio, "attention all aircraft," a routine advisory for planes in the area. >> the rain was so heavy at times that i couldnt even see the wingtip. >> the pilot is checking the radar to guide the co-pilot who is trying to find his way around the storm. he sees what looks like a patch of weather on the radar screen. >> we did not have doppler radar in those days. you had to use maximum tuning to get the inform...